[wingide-users] Trapping exceptions

[Wingware Support]

Tony Cappellini wrote:
> Is it normal for Wing to trap the following exception, when it is set
> to  ImmediatelyIfAppear Unhandled ?
> I was expecting that Wing would not trap the exception,  because "it
> is handled".
> 
> def func(arg):
> 
>    assert type(arg) is types.IntType, "Message"
> 
>    return
> 
> 
> try:
>    x= func('ABC')
> except AssertionError:
>    # do something else

Were you stepping through code?  Wing will show the exception if it 
changes the next line that it stops on when stepping.  It also stops on 
assertions because AssertionError is in the default list of exceptions 
that Wing always stops at.

Thanks,

John